Container data center and heat dissipation system

ABSTRACT

A container data center includes a movable container, two server systems, an exhaust fan arranged on the container, a cold airflow generating apparatus arranged under the server systems, and a heat shield connected between tops of the server systems. A cold aisle is defined among the server systems, the heat shield, and the cold airflow generating apparatus. A hot aisle is defined among sidewalls of the container, the server systems, the heat shield, and the cold airflow generating apparatus. A bottom of the cold aisle defines an opening to communicate with the cold airflow generating apparatus. The cold airflow generating apparatus includes a blower arranged under the opening, two heat exchangers respectively arranged at opposite sides of the blower, and two air filters respectively arranged around outside of the heat exchangers.

BACKGROUND

1. Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to data centers, and particularly to acontainer data center and a heat dissipation system of the containerdata center.

2. Description of Related Art

With increasing heavy duty use of on-line applications, the need forcomputer data centers has increased rapidly. Data centers arecentralized computing facilities that include many servers, oftenarranged on server racks or shelves, and one rack or shelf with someservers can be considered a server system. During operation, serversystems generate a lot of heat in the data centers, and a common methodfor dissipating the heat is to use air conditioners, which are veryexpensive to purchase and operate. Therefore an energy-saving heatdissipation system is needed.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Many aspects of the present embodiments can be better understood withreference to the following drawings. The components in the drawings arenot necessarily drawn to scale, the emphasis instead being placed uponclearly illustrating the principles of the present embodiments.Moreover, in the drawings, all the views are schematic, and likereference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the severalviews.

FIG. 1 is a partial, schematic view of an embodiment of a container datacenter.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional, schematic view of the container data centerof FIG. 1.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The disclosure, including the accompanying drawings, is illustrated byway of example and not by way of limitation. It should be noted thatreferences to “an” or “one” embodiment in this disclosure are notnecessarily to the same embodiment, and such references mean at leastone.

Referring to FIG. 1, an embodiment of a container data center 100includes a portable container 10 and two server systems 20 installedside by side in the container 10 such that the servers in the systems 20are in two parallel rows.

Referring to FIG. 2, the container data center 100 further includes twoexhaust fans 30 arranged on the container 10 and a cold airflowgenerating apparatus 40 arranged under the server systems 20. Theexhaust fans 30 communicate with the container 10. A heat shield 25 isprovided to connect the tops of the server systems 20. The exhaust fans30 and the cold airflow generating apparatus 40 form a heat dissipationsystem 200 in the container data center 100 to dissipate heat for theserver systems 20.

In the container data center 100, there are a cold aisle 23 definedamong the server systems 20, the heat shield 25, and the cold airflowgenerating apparatus 40, and a hot aisle 24 defined among sidewalls ofthe container 10, the server systems 20, the heat shield 25, and thecold airflow generating apparatus 40 (in FIG. 2 the large hollow arrowsindicate cold airflow, and the small solid arrows indicate warm or hotairflow). The bottom of the cold aisle 23 (which is also the top of thecold airflow generating apparatus 40) defines a number of openings 26used to communicate the cold aisle 23 with the cold airflow generatingapparatus 40.

The cold airflow generating apparatus 40 includes a blower 42 arrangedunder the openings 26, two heat exchangers 44 respectively arranged atopposite sides of the blower 44, and two air filters 46 respectivelyarranged around the outside of the heat exchangers 44 to prevent dustentering the heat exchangers 44. In one embodiment, two rain shields 48,such as louvered windows, are mounted on the air filters 46 to preventwater entering the air filters 46.

In use, the blower 42 sucks air through the air filters 46 into the heatexchangers 44. The heat exchangers 44 cool the air, and then the coldairflow is blown into the cold aisle 23 by the blower 42 to cool theserver systems 20. The server systems 20 generate heat into the hotaisle 24, and hot airflow in the hot aisle 24 is exhausted by theexhaust fans 30 to outside of the container 10. When the ambienttemperature of the container 10 is low enough, the heat exchangers 44may be shut down to save electricity. The container data center 100 usesthe heat dissipation system 200 to dissipate heat, which consumes lesspower than common air conditioners.

It is to be understood, however, that even though numerouscharacteristics and advantages of the embodiments have been set forth inthe foregoing description, together with details of the structure andfunction of the embodiments, the disclosure is illustrative only, andchanges may be made in details, especially in matters of shape, size,and arrangement of parts within the principles of the embodiments to thefull extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in whichthe appended claims are expressed.

1. A container data center comprising: a portable container; two serversystems installed in the container in two parallel rows; an exhaust fanarranged on the container and communicating with the container; a coldairflow generating apparatus arranged under the server systems; and aheat shield connected between tops of the server systems, wherein a coldaisle is defined among the server systems, the heat shield, and the coldairflow generating apparatus, a hot aisle is defined among sidewalls ofthe container, the server systems, the heat shield, and the cold airflowgenerating apparatus, a bottom of the cold aisle defines an opening tocommunicate with the cold airflow generating apparatus; wherein the coldairflow generating apparatus comprises: a blower arranged under theopening; two heat exchangers respectively arranged at opposite sides ofthe blower; and two air filters respectively arranged around outside ofthe heat exchangers.
 2. The container data center of claim 1, whereinthe cold airflow generating apparatus further comprises two rain shieldsmounted on the air filters, respectively.
 3. A heat dissipation systemused to dissipate heat for a server system assembly comprising twoserver systems arranged in two parallel rows, a cold aisle is definedbetween the server systems, a hot aisle is defined among sidewalls ofthe server system assembly and the server systems, the heat dissipationsystem comprising: an exhaust fan arranged on the server systems toexhaust heat airflow in the hot aisle to outside of the server systemassembly; and a cold airflow generating apparatus arranged under theserver systems to provide cold airflow to the cold aisle, the coldairflow generating apparatus comprising: a blower arranged under thecold airflow and communicating with the cold airflow; two heatexchangers respectively arranged at opposite sides of the blower; andtwo air filters respectively arranged around outside of the heatexchangers.
 4. The heat dissipation system of claim 3, furthercomprising two rain shields mounted on the air filters.